Business

As a semester ends, new chiropractic grads may open up shop in your neighbourhood, effectively trying to grab at the same pool of patients that you are. Getting new patients through your door could become more difficult.

In September 2015 I wrote a column called “Business is Life.” In it, I spoke about Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., a town of 75,000 people. They have 10 chiropractors along a two-kilometre stretch of the Great Northern Road.

As a chiropractor, you’ve worked tirelessly to improve your patients’ quality of life and build your practice – and then you get a two-star rating on Google. No one likes a bad review and you don’t want it affecting your business.

Halifax, N.S. — There's a new website aimed at helping Canadians find their ideal chiropractor. Chiropractors.ca has completed its first month of operations, demonstrating encouraging growth. Within its first 30 days, 90 Canadian chiropractors registered their practice profiles with Chiropractors.ca.

Chiropractic patient communication has been a serious problem over the years and it has caused a lot of issues in not only driving more people to chiropractic offices, but also getting the population as a whole to accept and understand our profession.

This past June I wrote an eye-opening article that revealed the truth about how chiropractors and team medical doctors get paid in professional football. My research verified that while many non-health-care professions who work with pro teams get paid – chiropractors are merely volunteers. For this follow-up piece, I look to answer the question: How are chiropractic practitioners treated in other sports, namely the Olympics and Major League Baseball.

For most retirees, the thought of retirement always seems to be some destination far off into the future. But like many things in life, retirement has a funny way of approaching with greater speed each passing year.

A series of proposed class action lawsuits have been launched against some of Ontario's largest insurance companies, alleging they are breaking rules that govern payments to automobile accident victims.

We’ve heard the term “passive income” many times, but do we really know what it means? Passive income is generating money from a concept or organization that does not require our direct presence. Residual income calculates how much money we have left over after we pay all our expenses.

Health spending in Canada is expected to reach $6,604 per capita this year – or about $200 more per person compared to last year – according to a report released Tuesday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies are oftentimes the culprits.

When it comes to understanding what makes people tick—and get sick—medical science has long assumed that the bigger the sample of human subjects, the better. New research suggests this big-data approach may be wildly off the mark.

In light of the increasingly aging population in Canada and advances in digital technology innovation in health care, a new study commissioned by Telus Health reveals those who would benefit most from health-care innovation are the least likely to adopt it.

When I was in chiropractic school, I had one of my professors tell me that in real-world practice there would be the opportunity to make a lot of money, but the path we chose would determine our happiness.

New patients have their own unique needs and you have some detective work to do. Whether in the patient’s hand on the intake form or yours as you conduct a patient interview, you need to record the answers to the many questions you have about the complaint, which brings them in.

The intake form you use with all of your new patients is more than just the first piece of paper that your patient touches. It gives you an opportunity to make a great first impression for both your profession and your professionalism. The intake form becomes the foundation of their clinical record, and by extension, the care you deliver.

Toys “R” Us (USA), Sears Canada, and Target Canada. All of these companies had expenses that grossly overshadowed their revenue. As the losses mounted, they did nothing to stop the financial bleeding. When these businesses finally tried to do something, they were in too deep.